The Christmas Bell Mystery: A Standalone 1920s Christmas Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates… Book 12)
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A chance meeting on a snowy platform, an old miser with a fortune worth killing for, and the wrong man found dead beside the fireplace.
England, 1927. When Lord Edgington hears of a failed attack on an eccentric viscount, it’s the perfect excuse to get out of seeing horrible relatives over Christmas. With his loyal grandson and their golden retriever along for the ride, he sets off to investigate, but on arriving at the snowbound manor house on the English coast, they find that the wrong man has been killed. It is not the rich tyrant who lies dead on the floor of the grand salon, but one of his many bickering heirs.
In a household divided by greed and jealousy, and with any number of suspects who might kill their way to a fortune, the famous sleuth must race to find the culprit before more members of the family turn up dead (or it’s time for Christmas dinner). Will the killer turn out to be a smooth-tongued lothario, a beloved pillar of the community, a thuggish former soldier or the damsel in distress who brought them there in the first place?
A witty and wonderfully festive whodunnit which mixes all the twists of an Agatha Christie novel with the drama of Downton Abbey. “The Christmas Bell Mystery” is a spoiler-free, standalone story, so you don’t have to know anything about the other books in the series to enjoy it.
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Additional information
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| File size | 2160 KB |
| Simultaneous device usage | Unlimited |
| Text-to-Speech | Enabled |
| Screen Reader | Supported |
| Enhanced typesetting | Enabled |
| X-Ray | Not Enabled |
| Word Wise | Enabled |
| Sticky notes | On Kindle Scribe |
| Print length | 258 pages |
| Page numbers source ISBN | 8419162280 |
by Mark Lucas-Taylor
This is the latest in Benedict Brown’s Lord Edgington series and his latest stand alone Christmas mystery.
Christopher Prentiss meets a beautiful young woman on the train home for Christmas and this leads to another intriguing mystery. Who is trying to kill Peregrine Rivers, is it just a case of an apparently convoluted inheritance or something much darker?
Red herrings aplenty abound, manipulations and machinations, lies and confusions all take place in this gripping novel.
by DJMc
I always enjoy Lord Edgington investigates and this book will keep me reading them, I thoroughly enjoyed it! Well done!
by linsey m neale
I adore this series of books and look forward to every edition but I especially look forward to the Christmas ones, and this didn’t let me down!!! Great characters and fabulous plot. An absolute must for any mystery/ Christmas fan
by Amazon Margaret LCustomer
This latest Lord Edgington mystery is ideal for getting you into the Christmas spirit. Easy to read, full of colourful characters, some new and some old favourites, the mystery is hard to put down. The wonderful descriptions totally immerse the reader in the story and the final denouement is both surprising and satisfying.
by Nessy
It’s Christmas. Your dreadful relatives are coming. So what do you do? Fake an illness? Hide in the shed?
If you’re Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall, you find an unpleasant murder to get yourself mixed up in.
Again.
With another country house full of bickering, deceitful relatives, motives aplenty and far too many suspects, it’s not the eccentric miser lying dead. Surprisingly, because there’s already been one failed attack on the old skinflint.
As usual, it’s down to Lord E and Chrissy to find the culprit before anyone else gets bumped off, or (horror of horrors!) Christmas dinner gets cancelled…
A fiendishly festive adventure for our favourite sleuths
by Lynn Wray
Another wonderful read from Benedict Brown. I don’t know how he does it I just hope he keeps these brilliant books coming!!!